Eliminating Eras

[whoward69]

I should point out that depending on XML to execute in a specific order is, in general, a bad idea.

Actually, the database updates are guarenteed to execute within a file (XML or SQL) from top to bottom, and within a mod in the order the XML/SQL files are listed in the UpdateDatabase section (which is why there are up/down buttons in ModBuddy) - there's a post somewhere on 2k Forums by FXSS_Seckman about it - otherwise things like <DeleteMissingReferences> are useless.

What is NOT guarenteed is the order that contexts (usually from UI Addins) within a mod are executed or even the order that mods are loaded (although in the latest version of ModBuddy the Associations tab is functional so you may now be able to fix the latter)

 

[Spatzimaus]

and within a mod in the order the XML/SQL files are listed in the UpdateDatabase section (which is why there are up/down buttons in ModBuddy)

They might have changed this since the last time I experimented with it, but I know when I was first starting my mods, it most definitely did NOT do them in that order. Glad they fixed it.

(although in the latest version of ModBuddy the Associations tab is functional so you may now be able to fix the latter)

Wait, when did THAT happen? Last I'd heard it was still not actually working, and I don't just mean the UI not allowing you to enter something there. (And that one's just mind-boggling. It's been a year and a half, and an entire tab in the editor still isn't complete?)

So hey, if they've fixed all of that, then forget what I said about order.

 

[whoward69]

They might have changed this since the last time I experimented with it, but I know when I was first starting my mods, it most definitely did NOT do them in that order. Glad they fixed it..

It's been fixed since around patch 336 - or whenever <DeleteMissingReferences> and <Replace> were introduced

Wait, when did THAT happen? Last I'd heard it was still not actually working, and I don't just mean the UI not allowing you to enter something there. (And that one's just mind-boggling. It's been a year and a half, and an entire tab in the editor still isn't complete?)

So hey, if they've fixed all of that, then forget what I said about order.

Dependencies (manually edited) have been working for many, many months (someone posted a reference article about it recently on these forums).

The ModBuddy was updated yesterday - for Steam Workshop - and that has the "working" tab